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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by ryanmarsh on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:17PM (#18565785)
Buy and AirBnb gift card in the app for the amount you need. Redeem the gift card in your AirBnb account BEFORE YOU BOOK. Get 2 miles per dollar (or whatever, they all fluctuate). For a while Amazon was two miles per dollar. We shifted all our household shopping into Amazon LOL. They got hip to it and now Amazon is like half a mile per dollar.
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by gammateam on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:00PM (#18565970)
That sucks

You can get 2 Chase points for booking travel w/ their Sapphire cards already, and they convert 1:1 to United miles if you want, but are much more fungible too.

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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by 2arrs2ells on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:53PM (#18566520)
3 UR points per $ with the sapphire reserve
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by gammateam on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:16PM (#18566617)
yep, why play these reindeer games with gift cards

some shariah compliant 'debt is bad' logic?

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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by nataz on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:57PM (#18565956)
You used to be able to get Amazon gift cards directly with miles, but it was dropped as a partner a few months ago...
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